Abstract: Marie Cartier is a teacher, poet, writer, healer, artist, activist and facilitator. She also has a first degree black belt
in karate. She currently teaches at the University of California Irvine in the Film Department and at CSU Northridge in the
Women's Studies Department. Her poetry is widely published. She has written and published five plays, all originally published
by Dialogus Press. An active and accomplished performer, she has gained notoriety with her one woman show Ballistic Femme
which explored the identity politics and history of butch femme dynamics and communities. Another project of Cartier's, MORGASM
(The Museum of Radical Gender and Sex Matrix), was conceived as a consortium and educational group devoted to exploring and
displaying unexplored aspects of women's sexual pleasure and bodies. Included in the collection are published and unpublished
examples of her academic work, materials pertaining to her incest survivors' rights activism, and documentation and promotional
items for her performances.

Language: Finding aid is written in
English.

Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.

Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of Marie Cartier, 1991. This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L.
Mazer Lesbian Archives, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the UCLA Library.

Processing Note

Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011.

Sponsor

The
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the
UCLA Library . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This
partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize,
preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.

Marie Cartier is a teacher, poet, writer, healer, artist, activist and facilitator. She also has a first degree black belt
in karate. She currently teaches at the University of California Irvine in the Film department and at CSU Northridge in the
Women's Studies department.

She has a BA in Communications from the University of New Hampshire, an MA in English and Poetry from Colorado State, an MFA
in Playwriting from UCLA, an MFA in Film and Television from UCLA, an MFA in Visual Art (Painting and Sculpture) from Claremont
Graduate University, and a PhD in Religion from Claremont Graduate University. Her dissertation "Baby You are My Religion"
explores the butch-femme community in the Pre-Stonewall era. Much of her academic and performative work focuses on the butch-femme
dynamics both in historical context and as an erotic force.

Her poetry is widely published. Many of her poems have been included in publications such as Sinister Wisdom, Heresies, Colorado
State Review, Culture Concrete and Central Park as well as being included in several poetry anthologies including Wanting
Women and Poetry of Sex.

She has written and published five plays, all originally published by Dialogus Press. Stumbling into Light incorporates monologue,
poetry and Greek chorus to explore a woman's healing path from sexual trauma and abuse. Leave a Light on When You Go Out utilizes
both drama and humor through the style of performance poetry to deal with issues of violence against women. Freeze Count is
adapted from original oral histories conducted with inmates at the Wyoming Women's Center. Close to Home is a more traditional
play, humorously exploring the attempt for a mother and daughter to find common ground.

An active and accomplished performer, she has gained notoriety with her one woman show Ballistic Femme which explored the
identity politics and history of butch femme dynamics and communities. Another project of Cartier's, MORGASM (The Museum of
Radical Gender and Sex Matrix), was conceived as a consortium and educational group devoted to exploring and displaying unexplored
aspects of women's sexual pleasure and bodies.

Scope and Content

The Marie Cartier Papers contains her academic work emerging from her time as a PhD candidate at Claremont Graduate University,
published and unpublished creative writing projects including plays, short stories, poetry and fiction, flyers from performances
for area artists as well as for Marie herself, ephemera from performances, documents relating to the Dandelion Warriors incest
survivors work, and personal papers relating to job searches, grants and project proposals.

Also included is a large collection of published books on a variety of subjects as well as a selection of periodicals and
organizational publications and calendars.

Organization and Arrangement

Arrangement reflects original order.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.